On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:57:13AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes: > > Ethan> the problem is most likely that /usr/sbin/postdrop is not > Ethan> setgid postdrop. > > >From memory, there is a debconf question about this. Perhaps the > response to the question was wrong, in which case the poster may have > problems on future upgrades? it could be another broken debconf package that doesn't allow you to reconfigure your system except through debconf. ie he chose `world writable maildrop' on install, and then changed it to non-world writable maildrop manually later. then postfix was upgraded and just blew away his configuration.. but it doesn't look like thats what happened. looks more like a fluke malfunction of the postinst. > (but it still should work even if you say you don't want postdrop > setgid. hmmm....) it will, but you must change two other things on the system: /var/spool/postfix/maildrop MUST be mode 1733 (its 1730 for sgid mode) /etc/postfix/postfix-script MUST be a symlink to /etc/postfix/postfix-script-nosgid -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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